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TEMPERATURES: 24 lir. period to 9 a.m.: 72; 64. Previous 24 hr. period: 84; 66. Year ago: High 78; Low 58. Rain, 1.88 in. Precipitation, year to date, 21.68. IRONWOOD DAILY GLOBE FORECASTS — Cloudy with occasional rain and scattered thundershowers and cooler tonight. Lows tonight 50 to 56. Sunday partly cloudy and cool, highs 63 to 70. Monday: partly cloudy, 46th YEAR, NUMBER 221. WIRE N-EWS SERVICE ASSOCIATED PRESS LEASED IRONWOOD, MICHIGAN, SATURDAY EVENING, AUGUST 7, 1965. TEN PAGES SINGLE COPY 10 CENTS. Hundreds Protest LBJ's Viet Nam Policy .etter Contains Nothing to Raise Hopes for Peace L6J Gets No Direct Message From Reds By ENDRE MARTON WASHINGTON (AP) — There was no direct message from the •forth Vietnamese to President Johnson in a letter delivered by HOLDING THEIR POSITION NEAR DA NANG—U.S. and Vietnamese marines hold positions in sand around U.S. tank during a joint operation near Tra Khe, about 10 miles south- west of Da Nang. A Yank, center, blows sand breech. (AP Wirephoto via radio from Saigon) out of rifle's King Told Way Out of Crisis Justice Department Starts Enforcement of Voting Law By MARTHA COLE WASHINGTON (AP) — The ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Po- Department of Justice presses! advice for litical leaders have told King ! th b tt todav t st rt Constantino that the only way cles to the right to vote." President Johnson had some Negroes when he en-j went to the Capitol Friday to George Papandreou or call elec- ing. tions. The department is going into The leaders predicted that in i court at Jackson, Miss., to chal- either case, Papandreou, 77, is > ^enge that state's poll tax. Fed- likely to get back the job he lost eral voting registration rnachin- when Constantine fired him July : ery will be set up next week in 15 in a dispute over political j still undesignated areas in the ciity in the armed forces. Papandreou, head of the ma- South, and additional poll tax suits will be filed. out of Greece's political crisis is • forcement of the new law ; si g n the bill amid historic cere- to reinstate ousted Premier - against obstacles to Negro vot-jmony. "You must register," Johnson said. "You must vote. And you must learn so your choice advances your interest and the interest of the nation." By publication in the Federal Register today, the Justice Department brings about specific application of the ban on voter qualification tests in areas where less than half the adult population balloted in last November's election. The tests are banned in Alabama, Louisiana, Georgia, Mississippi, South Carolina, Virginia, Alaska, part of •North Carolina and scattered counties elsewhere. The Justice Department plans to move quickly, but not massively, in enforcement. The President said federal examiners will be sent to from 10 to 15 counties Tuesday to start registering eligible men and women. The counties will be named Monday. Also on Tuesday, Katzenbach jority Center Union party, has! Atty. Gen. Nicholas deB. Kat- expressed confidence that he '' zenbach had no prediction of will return to power either by how many new Negro voters the royal mandate or popular vote, law would bring to the polls. The king has been consulting j "As the President said, this political leaders since Thurs- ! act and its enforcement open day, when the palace-backed the gates." he told a reporter, government of Premier George • "Walking through them is up to Athanasladis Novas lost a confi- i individual Negroes throughout dence vote in parliament. the South. Relations between the king "But we would hope, in any and Papandreou have im-! event, that it is now possible for proved, and Stephanos Stephan- j a good many thousand Negro opoulos, Papandreou's deputy | citizens to be registered by the premier before the crisis, felt' end of the year." "encouraged and optimistic" Dr. Martin Luther King Jr: t after seeing the king. Elias Tsirimokos, civil-rights leader, has said interior! workers expect to help some minister in the former Papan- j 900,000 Southern Negroes regis- dreou cabinet, also saw Con- i ter by the end of the month. He stantine Friday night and said • hailed the new law Friday as later the king was "deeply con- j one that "will go a long way vinced that the Center Union! toward removing all the obsta- must form the government." While the king met with leaders in the palace Friday night, 2,000 students demonstrated for Papandreou at Athens University. The demonstration proceeded peacefully. It was organized by the National Students Union, the same organization that called the July 21 rally which turned into a riot. Severe Storms Diminish Today By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Severe thunderstorms which hit wide areas in the central part of the nation during the member of the Center Union!night diminished today, with party, remains premier despite, generally dry weather in most the parliamentary defeat until i areas the king decides his next move, i more than 100 hurt. Athanasiadis Novas, Ford Explains His Statement WASHINGTON (AP) Rep Gerald R. Ford says he is sur prised at some interpretation of his mention of the possibility of a congressional declaration o war in Viet Nam. He said he was merely ex pressing concern, not advocatini such a step. Ford said in a statement re corded last Wednesday for tele vision station Angeles, that KNXT-TV, Lo 'under the cir cumstances of our. commitmen in Viet Nam and unless Presi dent Johnson has mitigating cir cumstarces that should control the honest thing would be fo Congress to back up the presi dent's decision by a declaration of emergency or war." This brought a prompt re sponse from Ford's Democrati counterpart, Rep. Carl Albert o Oklahoma, who interpreted th GOP leader's comment as an endorsement of a declaration o war. Such a move would be "fool hardy because a declaration o war . . . would run squarel will file suits challenging poll | against the effort of the Unite< taxes in Texas, Alabama and States to move this issue to th Virginia. ' " "^ ""-' Atty. Gen. Joe Mississippi said in Jackson the I merely "reflect the concern tha conference table," Albert said. Patterson of j Ford said his statement state will defend its position that the U.S. Constitution does not prohibit poll taxes in state and local elections. the President may be exceedin his constitutional powers an that the Congress may not b exercising its responsibilities." Student Charged With Murder In Slaying of 2 Dallas Coeds also Because Constantine appointed the now-rejected Athanasiad- Heavy rain, winds lashed hail and areas in gusty Okla- IT NovaTnan7£imc ans feel: J°ma, Michigan, Wisconsin II- it would be easier for the king to! »™f- Nebraska Oh o and call new elections than to recall I un. Tneiam Papandreou, the man he fired. Toy Collie Returned To Owner Through Use Of Globe "Lost Ad" Immediate results were obtained with this Daily Globe "Lost Ad": LOST: TOY COL1.1E — brown with black markings. Answers to "Freddie". 000 Maple Street, Hurley. Phone 000-0000. Reward. Lost pets are quickly returned to their owners when folks use the Daily Globe Want-Ads to tell about their lost pets. The cost is small, the action fast. On Th* Rang* And In Th* Onionagon Country It'» Th* Iron wood Daily Globe Want-Ads Get Th* Quick Action Results 4. Phone 932-2211 for * Mils Ad-T«k*r ia, with rain in scattered sections of the southeast. Seven persons, including four young girls and three women, were killed Friday night in a two-car head-on collision during a heavy rainstorm near Purcell, Okla. Winds up to 80 m.p.h. swept Oklahoma City in a thunderstorm. A tornado which hit 10 miles east of Lawton picked up AUSTIN, Tex. (AP) — A muscular 22-year-old University of Texas student was charged with murder slaying Friday of two night young in the women whose nearly nude bodies were found July 30 in a weed field James C. Cross Jr., handsome son of a Fort Worth chain store advertising executive, was charged in the death of Susan Rigsby and Shirley Ann Stark, both 21, beautiful, brunette and from Dallas. The complaint against Cross alleges he strangled both of the Chi Omega sorority sisters. State Police Director Homer Garrisrn told a news conference that Cross voluntarily signed a statement. Cross then was taken to the Travis County Jail where he was held without bond. ?ec/s Set Up Steady Barrage Against Vietnamese Outposts n Minister Alex Quaison- Sackey of Ghana, diplomatic sources said today. The letter, from Ghana President Kwame Nkrumah, con- ained nothing to brighten the irospects for peace negotia- ,ions, it was understood. Quaison-Sackey would not talk to newsmen about its contents. The message, delivered at the White House Friday, had aroused considerable advance speculation because, only a day earlier, Nkrumah had received a communication from President Ho Chi Minh of North Viet Nam, with whom he is friendly. * * * Quaison-Sackey, who is also president of the U.N. General Assembly, met with Johnson and, the White House later indicated, received assurances the United States has no present plans to bomb Hanoi, capital of North Viet Nam. U.S. officials have repeatedly said as much. Presidential Press Secretary Bill D. Moyers said Quaison- Sackey reported Hanoi had expressed concern about a visit from Nkrumah because of possible bombings. Moyers said Johnson had told the envoy "That concern was unnecessary because there is no U.S. mili tary action against Hanoi . . "not a bomb has fallen there'." But when asked whether this meant there is no plan to bomb the city in the foreseeable fu ture, Moyers said, "I would no read into the statement any thing beyond what is obvious." He said Johnson also had told Quaison-Sackey "that the quick est way to peace is for aggres sion from the north to cease.' There was no discussion o: peace negotiations, Moyer; said. He told newsmen the de tails of the correspondence be tween Johnson and Nkrumah will be made public after John son replies to the communication ne received. * * * Nkrumah is one of the four Commonwealth peace envoy picked last month by the Lon don Conference of Common wealth Nations to explore the possibilities of peace in Viet Nam. Hanoi immediately said i would not welcome a vsit by the four. The Communsts re ceived, however, Kwesi Armah Nkrumah's special envoy, who brought back to Accra a specia message from Ho Chi Minh. Nkrumah apparently indi cated in his letter to Johnson he would go to Hanoi himself. In addition to being a member o the Commonwealth team, he was one of the 17 heads of state and prime ministers of non aligner nations who signed an appeal last March in Belgradi for peace talks on Viet Nam The appeal was swiftly rejected by the Hanoi regime. a car containing a mother and| Dist. Atty. Tom Blackwell her two small children and i said the case would go to the dashed it to the ground across grand iury "as soon as possi- a highway. They were not seri- ble." He said he "absolutely" whether the statement men tioned any sexual assault on the women. In a statement to Austin police early in the investigation, Cross said he had dated Miss Stark several times and had talked to her over the telephone July 18. Garrison quoted Cross' statement as saying the women were slain in Austin in midafternoon of July 18. The police director refused, however, to divulge the alleged motive or the place where the statement said — if it did — the women were killed. He said the statement implicated no one other than Cross. Officers said Cross came to headquarters alone to make the statement. Garnson said, "we are pretty ously hurt. Thunderstorms crossed central and eastern Missouri, with rain and hail and strong winds in many cities. Winds of 72 m.p.h. whipped across south- would seek the death penalty. Filing of the charges against Cross climaxed a day-and-night investigation that started out as a missing persons search. The young women last were western suburbs of Chicago in | seen alive July 18. Their decomposed bodies were found in a vacant lot on the north edge of Austin 12 days later. They had come TO Austin to enroll Miss the nation. Pleasant] Rigsby in summer classes at weather prevailed along the Pa-,the University. Miss Stark left a heavy rainstorm. Cool air spread into sections of the Plains but warm weather covered half of most of the eastern SAIGON, South Viet Nam AP) — Communist guerrillas et up a steady barrage of mor- ar attacks early today against government outposts in a Mek- ng Delta region south of the capital, a U.S. military spokesman said. The Viet Vietnamese Cong shelled the positions, ranging rom 100 miles to 125 miles iouthwest of Saigon, with 60mm and 81mm mortar rounds, an officer reported. Vietnamese casualties were •eportec 1 as "light" in some of he attacks. There were no reports of casualties in others. A Navy Al Skyraider was lost n a raid on the Dong Hoi bar- •acks 40 miles north of the border. A military spokesman said were sighted and all U.S. planes returned safely. Bomb disposal squads were removing explosives scattered along a main street in Nha Trang following the crash of a U.S. Air Force B57 jet bomber. The Canberra smashed into the city 200 miles northeast of Saigon Friday. Military authorities listed 14 Vietnamese killed, 67 Vietnamese injured and 8 Americans injured. They said eight of the injured Vietnamese were in serious condition. The two crew members of the plane had parachuted after setting their disabled craft on automatic pilot headed toward the South China Sea. It was reported the plane had been hit by enemy ground fire and it was Rally Is Held In Park Near White House California, Indiana Have Demonstrations WASHINGTON (AP) Critics by the hundreds demonstrated in Washington, California and Indiana against President Johnson's Viet Nam policies. In Washington Friday about 600 persons attended a four-hour rally in a park across from the White House to mark the beginning of what was called a four-day assembly of unrep- resented people. A smaller Sinatra Weddina Rumors Persist EDGARTOWN, Mass. (AP) — Frank Sinatra's chartered yach Southern Breeze prepared t leave Martha's Vineyard today carrying the 49-year-old singer, his friends, and 19-year-old sweetheart, Mia Farrow, to Boston. Ashore, rumors and unanswered questions outnumbered the sea gulls. Reports have persisted for several days that Sinatra and Miss Farrow, the schoolgirl in television's "Peyton Place", would leave the yacht to be he plane was one of 29 from he carrier Midway that dropped 5 tons of bombs on the area. rhe Skyraider was hit by ground fire, plunged to the ground and the pilot was presumed killed, the spokesman arlripH ZLUUCU. * * * In another development, a government unit was reported ;o have uncovered a major Viet Cong medical facility in a jun- jle area 35 miles southwest of Saigon. The medical facility reportedly consisted of 14 wards, each capable of holding from 10 to 20 satients Five tons of medicine ;quipment and supplies were lOund Other Viet Cong products seized included 2,000 "items of arms and ammunition" and 1,000 tons of rice, officials said. In other action, the Viet Cong renewed a mortar attack at the special forces camp at Due Co, 215 miles northeast of Saigon. The camp in Pleiku Province in the highlands was the scene of heavy fighting earlier in the week, but the spokesman said no casualties were reported there today. Meanwhile, forward air controllers calling air strikes for U.S. and Vietnamese war planes in South Viet Nam were said to have indicated 200 guerrillas were killed in a 24-hour period ending today. The figure was not confirmed by body count In air strikes into North Viet Nam today, an explosives plant 55 miles northwest of Hanoi was hit by eight U.S. Air Force FlOSs supported by five . other planes, briefing officers said. * * * Pilots said they destroyed four buildings with 24 tons of 750-pounc? bombs. The officers gave this account of other raids during the day: Four Air Force FlOSs attacked a barracks area about 70 miles north of the South Viet Nam border and pilots reported inflicting light damage. One flight of Navy A4 Sky- hawks from the carrier Independence hit a petroleum storage area about 130 miles south of Hanoi. Pilots reported seven tanks damaged heavily with fires observed at the target. Four other Skyhawks from the Independence attacked a barracks area about 110 miles north of the border and a warehouse about 80 miles north of it. Pilots reported that the warehouse blew apart from secondary explosions. About 65 miles south of Hanoi. two other Skyhawks from the Independence attacked railroad cars and barges with rockets and pilots reported inflicting heavy damage. • Some groundfire was encountered over target areas, spokesmen said, but no enemy planes ueiievfii a zauity engine caused it to veer off the course set by the automatic pilot. The pilot, Capt. Lawrence Horacek, 29, of Ludington, Mich., and his navigator, 1st Lt. Robert Johnson, 25, of Osawatomie, Kan., were picked up uninjured by a helicopter within five minutes after their parachutes touched the water, a spokesman said. The Viet Cong's call for help from Hanoi has raised speculation about the motives behind it. Some viewed the appeal, broadcast today by Hanoi Radio, as an indication that the Communists are feeling the manpower pinch. U.S. officials claim the guerrillas have suffered heavy losses recently. * ^ ^ w W Another theory was that the statement was a prelude to some new action by Hanoi or a move to strengthen its bargaining position should there be a new approach to negotiations. It may also have been a response to President Johnson's July 28 announcement that the United States would add 50,000 troops to the U.S. forces in Viet Nam, bringing their strength to 125,000 Up to now, Communist North Viet Num has disclaimed direct involvement in the war. But U.S. officials say units of the North's regular army have been identified in the South and there has been steady infiltration. The North Vietnamese broadcast said the guerrillas want help "to increase our forces and step up resistance of the war 10 times more vigorously." The Viet Cong's statement was quoted as ruling out all negotiations unless its political arm — the National Liberation Front — was included among the participants. The Soviet Union declared Friday that the 50,000 additional American troops are intended to "break the will of the people of Viet N:?m." The defense committee of the South Korean National Assembly approved a plan to send about 15,000 soldiers to South Viet Nam. A session of the assembly will deal with the proposal next week. South Korea already has 2,500 troops in Viet Nam for engineering and medical duties. A U S. spokesman in Saigon announced that the Viet Cong in July compared with a total of 2,750 such casualties in June. Total Vietnamese government losses for July — killed, wounded and captured — were put at 3,850. Of these 1,335 died in combat. South Viet Nam's military government said today former strongman Lt. Gen. Nguyen Khanh is under investigation in conection with missing funds See REDS— Page 8. Plane Crashes Near Housing Development; 9 Are Killed number staged a sit-in at a White House gate. Scores of police were on guard against outbreaks. In Emeryville, Calif., about 300 pickets tried unsuccessfully to block a 22-car train hauling troops to the Oakland, Calif., Army terminal. In B'oomington, Ind., more than 100 Indiana University students and a few professors paraded downtown with such signs as "Stop the slaughter of Vietnamese people." The assembly in Washington plans to climax its protest meeting Monday with a march from the Washington monument to the Capitol. A 100-member delegation of the assembly sought unsuccessfully to present a "declaration of conscience" to President Johnson. When he refused to to | receive it personally, about 60 pickets staged a sit-in at an entrance to the White House grounds. The sit-in party sought to continue its vigil through the night, but by midnight it had dwindled to a band of about a dozen sharing one water jug and a few packs of cigarettes. There were two arrests. President and Mrs. Johnson were away for much of the sit- in. They left about 9 p.m. for Camp David, presidential retreat near Thurmont, Md. Earlier, speakers at the mlly here denounced fighting in Viet Nam, called for admission of Red China to the United Nations and noted that the day marked the 20th anniversary of the dropping of an atomic bomb on Hirshima, Japan. Folk singer Joan Baez and other musicians performed between speeches as the demonstrators, many wearing blue jeans and sandals, milled about. The Emeryville, Calif., demonstration was the second of its kind in two days. Three hundred pickets gathered at the Sante F« ; ,Jlailroad crossing, seeking to halt the troop train by sitting rails. As the train slowly approached, a flying wedge of about 30 deputies from the Alameda County sheriff's office forced them off the tracks. The sign-carrying demonstrators booed the deputies. Soldiers in the cars booed back. No cne was injured or arrested. At the Bloomington, Ind., demonstration, students passed out i printed "declaration of conscience" urging draft-age students to refuse to serve if called into the armed services. "We encourage those who can conscientiously do so to refuse to serve in the armed forces and to ask for a discharge if they are already in," the declaration stated in part. Meanwhile, in Congress the House Armed Services Committee approved a bill calling for a five-year prison term and a $10,000 fine for anyone convicted of destroying his draft card. LAKEWOOD, Calif. (AP)—A light plane crashed into a field near a housing development today, spewing bodies and parts of the plane against houses and fences "We have nine bodies counted residents." Lake wood is about 15 miles south of Los Angeles. Moller said the plane was a Beechcraft C47H registered to James C. Thomas in of nearby Pasadena. The plane crashed in a field proud of the investigation. As i married on James Cagney's | iifs deputy. ' so far," said a Lakewood sher- a few yards from a row of far as we're concerned, the case ! estate on the southern tip of the houses, said Mrs. Sue Janzen, is clear island. The black-haired Cross was a But one of Sinatra's friends, sophomore in arts and sciences, actress Rosalind Russell, left He served three years in the j the 168-foot luxury vessel Fri- Army, including service in Ja- day and declared "they are not pan GOP Attacks Demo Spending WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican congressional leaders have attacked administration spending which they said has failed to reduce unemployment but has raised prices. "One body is hanging from a: who lives a block away. living .-oom window," said the , --Parts ; of the plane flew, a.n the cost deputy. against fences that walls off the The plane's engine plowed houses from the railroad tracks through a garage. Other parts'which run through the field," of the plane ripped through cln- getting married here. Not on i der block and chain link fences A check in Fort Worth showed this voyage, There is no sugges- he had no police record. Richard H. Udlock, a Fort Worth neighbor of Cross, de- tion )of it." Miss Russell's statement began speculation that Sinatra is surrounding backyards. "It's an area of mostly middle class homes," said a sheriff's deputy. "It's mass confusion," said scribed the youth as friendly seeking a location for a new "It's mass confusion," said and said he considered him i movie on the trip. j Deputy Erwin Moller at the "nothing but No. 1." He said) The trip to Boston was pre- Lakewood sheriff's station. Cross planned to become an; dieted after the yacht captain "The plane apparently struck Enslish teacher. cific Coast but it was warm in ! most interior sections. the university in June. telephoned the Squantumla power line," he added. "Some said Mrs. Janzen. "The body of a man was thrown against the wall, too," she said. "The first we heard was a muffled sound," she added, "then a big thud. Then the whole sky was orange. "All the lights in our street went out. We could see a grass fire start. It's all kind of weeds Officers described the 5-foot-9, Marina in Boston harbor to ask of the power is out in the area, and flowers and stuff in the field Garrison declined to • say 1145-pound youth as muscular. | about docking facilities. [and we've sealed it off to all but j—and very dry." was up for the third straight month. He said such inflation "offsets the billions being expended in the highly-publicized war on poverty." House GOP Leader Gerald R. Ford of Michigan, sharing the rostrum Thursday with Dirksen at a joint news conference, charged that spending programs offered as "panaceas for unemployment" have not attained the administration's 4- year-old "intrim goal" of an unemployment level of 4 por cent.